Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-12
SECOND CHURCH, FAIR HAVEN.

The Retirement of zkev. mr. Blakesle
From the PastOrate-The ResOIu-
lions by the Church and Society.
At joint meeting of the Second Congre-
gational church and society of Fair Haven
held at their chapel November 10, 1887, the
following resolutions were presented and
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That it is with sincere regret and even
sadness, that this Second Congregational church
quite that the great mass Of the people of this
community sharers with Cat least in the feel
they will the face of their beloved minister and
cherished friend, the Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, no
Resolved, That in the retirement of Mr.. Blakeslee
this church. society and community lose man and
US Extending as it has only from February a 1854
unusual degree, characteristics among which are
the following: jealous interest in the moral i'm
the whole community as we'll his faithful and CON
slant striving to elevate the industrial standard of
to go geHe opnons in de-
Tense of his own convictions; and in his social rea-
tons the very personifcation Of genial, Christian
Resolved. That pastor he has been thorough.
delicate duties pertaining to the pastoral Office and
in season and out of season has been indefatigable
the SICK and Il ths unto
death, at the grave of our precious dead he has
ones, and thus as a pastor has endeared himself
forever to many appreciative one, both within
and without his sphere, who has been strengthened
by his superabundant sympathy in the hour of at
Fiction or lifted up by his inspiring words into
higher life.
| Resolved, That as a preacher while his sermons
have been sufficiently logical, yet their chief beauty
has consisted in their being entirely practical anc
1 the supreme guiding principle which has directed
and controlled all his work in the gospel ministry
1 among seems to have been implicit dependence
on God and desire to ascribe all success alone t.
| his glory. And, as was to be expected, granC
achievements have already resulted from such I'm
selfish devotedness to the advancement of the Re
deemer's kingdom in our midst, and as is apparen
to all, these results have been achieved largely
1 through the channel of the Young Peoples Soci
ETY. OF Christian Endeavor,' proposed, organized
| and made efficient by him an instrument.
| Resolved That while in the inscrutable but kin(
| dispensations of God pathways in life have
only for SO short season together, but nov
life will be but incidental contact of sphere
I moving in different orbits, yet wherever in tn
good providence of God his lot shall be cast let hin
| be assured that the warmest wishes, the earnes
prayers for the future health prosperity and hap
piness of himself and his most estmable family vii
follow him and them, until the end of life's joHrne.
and until the blessed reunion for which we all woul
fegn hope in the realms of the blest the celesta
| shore.
Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these reso
buttons be transmitted to late pastor in his
and wider field of labor for the great head of tn
/ church. Joint committee on resolutions,
1 CHARLES A. BRAY,
L BARNEY N. ROWE,
1 WILLIAM P. NILES,
GILES w. CLARK.